Maria Theresa (Great lives observed) - Hardcover

Roider, Karl A

9780135561911: Maria Theresa (Great lives observed)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0135561914 ISBN 13: 9780135561911

Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 1973

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In the early eighteenth century, many of these provinces had no provision for a female ruler. As it became increasingly apparent that the Habsburg family might be running out of males, in 1713 Maria Theresa's father, Charles VI (ruled 1711–1740), made public an internal family document called the Pragmatic Sanction, which guaranteed the right of succession to female family members. After 1720 Charles worked hard to persuade first his crownlands and then the other European powers to recognize the Pragmatic Sanction so that his elder daughter, Maria Theresa, could inherit the Habsburg patrimony....

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